A metal-radical polymer [Co(hfac)2.BPNN] showed a very large coercive field of 52 kOe (4.1 MA m-1) at 6 K, indicating that it is the hardest magnet ever reported. Above 10 K, a soft character appeared, owing to the fast dynamics of magnetization reorientation.

Single-shot phase-shifting incoherent digital holography with multiplexed checkerboard phase gratings is proposed for acquiring holograms of moving objects. The gratings presented here play the following three roles: dividing the beams, modulating the curvature of spherical beams, and introducing different phase shifts. With the gratings of our proposed method, four individual holograms of a spatially incoherent light are formed on an image sensor. Therefore, it is possible to simultaneously capture four holograms and implement a phase-shifting technique. A proof-of-principle experiment was conducted to show the feasibility of the proposed method.

In angle-multiplexed holographic memory, the full width at half maximum of the Bragg selectivity curves is dependent on the angle formed between the medium and incident laser beams. This indicates the possibility of high density and high multiplexing number by varying the angular intervals between adjacent holograms. We propose an angular interval scheduling for closely stacking holograms into medium even when the angle range is limited. We obtained bit error rates of the order of 10 À4 under the following conditions: medium thickness of 1 mm, laser beam wavelength of 532 nm, and angular multiplexing number of 300.

Metal-radical alternating chains [Co(hfac)2HNN]n crystallized in two morphs containing repeating all-cis (alpha) and cis,cis,trans (beta) configurations with respect to the O(HNN)-Co-O(HNN) geometry (HNN = 4,4,5,5-tetramethylimidazolin-1-oxyl 3-oxide). Both phases showed magnetization jumps with hysteresis at 2 K. The alpha phase has a relatively high activation energy of magnetization reorientation (193 K).

Photopolymer materials shrink because of photopolymerization. This shrinkage distorts the recorded interference fringes in a medium made of such material, which in turn degrades the reconstructed image quality. Adaptive optics controlled by a genetic algorithm was developed to optimize the wavefront of the reference beam while reproducing in order to compensate for the interference fringe distortion. We defined a fitness measure for this genetic algorithm that involves the mean brightness and coefficients of the variations of bit data "1" and "0". In an experiment, the adaptive optics improved the reconstructed image to the extent that data could be reproduced from the entire area of the image, and the signal to noise ratio of the reproduced data could be improved.